Welcome to my blog. So what does the title mean? Basically Sandra's World, in French. It's just a play on words when brainstorming for my blog title. My husband and I travelled to France in 2013, and fell in love with this country. The French language is also so lovely.
I love to create with both paper and fabric, and along with scrapbooking I also love quilting.

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Wow, it's Australia Day, nearly the end of January. Time is flying by already. I had to take some time to stop and do this challenge from Kraft +, and this one is very appealing:

I found this photo of my kids from way back, in 1994 and I love it, they were close then, they still are. Kieran had to be strapped onto the tricycle to be able to stay on.

Anyway, I created the background, with stamping and stenciling. I had this pinwheel stencil in my stash, which reminded me a little of the spokes on a bike. As the photo is a bit older, I decided to give the layout a little vintage touch as well, with some doilies.

Friday, January 20, 2017

Back again with the second of my creative team shares for January at Funky Flairs Studio.
This one is using a photo from my holiday in Hawaii last July. Of course there are lots of obligatory beach photos, and this photo is the first day we were in Waikiki.

Aloha

I had a lot of fun doing mixed media on this layout, stamping, gesso, texture paste with stencils, stamping - lots of layers - my favourite way to do mixed media.

I used the awesome flairs from the November/December 2015 release - To the beach collection. They say it all really.

Sunday, January 15, 2017

I am back with the second Stuck?!Sketches installment for January, the January 15 sketch.
Here is the sketch:

I loved this sketch when I first saw it.

My husband, son and I went to a Keith Urban concert in December. I knew this sketch would be great for any photos we took of the concert, so I made sure we took lots of photos, lol. I must also say, how awesome Keith Urban is as an entertainer, and a genuinely nice bloke. It was a great night out.

Anyway, I wanted this layout to be fairly clean and graphic. The photos are from a distance, so I didn't think there should be too much distraction from them.

Monday, January 2, 2017

Well the new year sees me on another new creative team, this one is for Funky Flair Studio. So today, I have one of my 2 monthly shares for you.
This layout is of a friends grand-daughter, she is a delightful little girl. I loved these photos of her enjoying the simplicity of bubbles - who doesn't enjoy bubbles?

Bubble Fun

I took inspiration for the layout from the colours in the photo and from the bubbles, creating my own "paper bubbles". I used a sketch by Laura Whitaker from Stuck?!Sketches - sometimes I get stuck on how to create a layout, lol.

Sunday, January 1, 2017

Happy New Year for 2017.
It's time for a new challenge at Stuck?!Sketches, and this one should keep you happy, just as they all do. Here is the sketch:

For my layout, I used an autumn photo, which I know sounds odd, given this time of year. However, Charms Creations is a sponsor for this challenge this month, and I was sent a product to use - the apricot terrific tab and the DIY star. So given the apricot colour, I decided to use this photo, and did an autumn theme layout.

I sprayed the patterned paper, added some rubons and then some washi tape, stamped images and some die cut leaves.

To my DIY star, I added some texture paste through some plasterers tape, but this doesn't show up very well. I then misted it, and stamped on it. I love the end result.

Happy New Year 2017.
I am delighted to be a part of the team at White With 1. So today I am sharing the new challenge for January. This month there is a moodboard to play with as well as the colour, which is PRINCESS PINK:

How pretty is this? So for all those girly layouts, let your hair down, and go with the pink.

I chose photos from my daughters 21st, already over 5 years ago. This colour was perfect for her photos, as was the moodboard.

I didn't have a lot of pink of this colour in my stash, but did find enough to manage my layout. Lol, I have used some quite old Love Elsie products, but they worked. I added a spotty cellophane lolly bag under the scrapping papers. I used white leaves instead of pink ones to soften the page a little. I have added some flairs from Funky Flair Studio.